Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fb35f80df6ea937…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.1 KB
MD5: 27f33c546fca49588efd467df9143a7c SHA-1: 54a12fdd12b3798225d170c2df86a418783b5cd5 SHA-256: 0fb35f80df6ea937edcfac0d1f2f1e3a1fb2ee034ae18796cc25f734b6dc8b83
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded XFA content that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a malicious JavaScript payload, which is likely responsible for downloading and running a second-stage payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream low PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000354.bin
02546cedeb2ee16589451a52281ea3ae98276081e5c8ec118e11ebd96f4e2b8f
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x354 15752 bytes